We all love to travel, to new places, new cities in cars, buses, caravans, by air, by the sea but I have travelled everyday since I was ten through books. I have let the ocean kiss my feet on the Coast of Ipanema and nosed around in Calgary and my travel expenses have never been more than the price of a McDonald Cheese Burger. Here's my travelogue where books can be found through the countries they have taken me to. The reviews are not professional and definitely not worth putting into a book review assignment for school! They are just a string of words that tell you what I felt when I travelled to a certain place. If it suits you, you go and book yourself a trip. If not, well...we'll keep it there!

Friday, March 8, 2013


Let Them Call It Jazz and Other Stories (Penguin 60s)Let Them Call It Jazz and Other Stories by Jean Rhys
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Jean Rhys, like Margaret Atwood, is one of those rare authors who make sense when the story seems to be making none at all. "However," I ask myself, "Does life really make sense?"

This is the keynote of these three short stories by Jean Rhys. Told with a shifting narrative, the stories in this book are about three women, two of them are foreigners in a strange land while one of them is not sure whether the world she has lived in for so many years is really her own. Stories of alienation and belonging, of silent fears and self-consciousness, of how notions of beauty, of being different from others and growing old affect the confidence and individuality of women are told beautifully in this little book.

Let Them Call it Jazz is a book by a woman who was way ahead of her time with stories that will always remain applicable universally for women around the globe!

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